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In 1988, the fate of Chile and its dictator came down to a ballot as simple as a middle schooler's do-you-like-me? note. A referendum offered citizens a simple choice: a "yes" for allowing President Augusto Pinochet to return to office for another...

As he's questioned by a therapist in the opening scene of the film bearing his name, we see Charles Swan III's subconscious literally spurt out of his head. It's visualized as an animated collage largely made up of ladies' long, disembodied legs &...

"It's hard to get these things started," says Walter Hill, dean of the American action movie, speaking from Los Angeles. "Action films are by their very nature more expensive than what are sometimes called, in the independent world, 'relationship ...

After Miramax had acquired Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 masterpiece Princess Mononoke for U.S. distribution, and as it was contemplating how to soften the bloody, distinctly PG-13 anime epic, Harvey Weinstein received a katana blade from Japan's Studio G...

Kids born in 1992 can buy beer now, and according to the usual timeline of nostalgia, this means that the fetishization of all things '90s is already well under way. While John Dies at the End is assuredly a product of today's online world, it fee...

From 1963 to 2005 the Cinémathèque Française, the temple of movie love, was located in the east wing of Paris' Palais de Chaillot. The south wing was, as always, occupied by the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Man), devoted...